Playing with Ema's Exercise Ball

I love playing with Ema's exercise ball while I'm waiting for my bath!

It's so much bigger then me, but it sure is fun to bang on and push around!

Helping Ema Clean for Pesach

While Ema was cleaning for pesach this is what I was doing...

ripping up her paper towels!! What a good helper I am, huh?

A Family BIrthday Celebration

When I came home from gan we had a little family birthday party! Aunt Kimmy and Uncle Yoni and Uncle Dani and Gisella came over and brought me fun presents!

First, Abba and Uncle Dani bar-b-qued yummy (Baltimore Wasserman's) hotdogs, burgers, and chicken:

Then after we ate Ema brought out this GORGEOUS vanilla cake with chocolate frosting (home made) and it had a big "1" on it! I had cake for the first time and it was DELICIOUS!

It was good Ema and Abba brought the cake out when they did because I was getting sleepy:

Thanks, everybody, for coming over and making my first birthday "memorable" (mostly for Ema and Abba)!

Happy Birthday To Me!!

This past Thursday we celebrated my hebrew birthday (3 Nissan)! I am one whole year old! Can you believe it? (I don't know why you wouldn't believe it but Ema kept asking that question over and over again!)

First, I had a wonderful birthday celebration at gan. Miriam and Veronica made me a beautiful birthday chair and a crown of flowers while all the children came over to say happy birthday (or yom huledet sameach)!

This me with Veronica (holding me up on a chair (sort of like at weddings and bar mitzvahs :-)):

And this is me with Miriam and some of the children in my gan:

I got to wear my crown all day! Veronica told Ema that she thinks I know that my birthday was a special day but I'm not sure exactly why...shows you what they know!

Surprise Visit From Hodaya

Yesterday we had a surprise visit from Hodaya and her Ema!

We had fun playing and talking to each other and crawling and walking together!

Thanks for coming! Let's play again soon!

Mazal Tov Chananya Ellis!

On Friday Ema, Abba and I took a trip to Kochav Yaakov to go to the Brit of my new friend Chananya Ellis (Yaakov and Adina (Kordova)'s new baby). It was so nice to celebrate such a beautiful Simcha with our friends. I even got to play with big brother Moshe during the seuda!

Mazal tov to the entire Kordova and Ellis families!

It Snowed Again!!

This past Thursday it SNOWED for the second time this winter! First it rained, then hailed, and then it snowed. Then the sun came out for an hour and melted it all. And THEN the clouds came back and it rained, hailed, and snowed and froze all over again!

These are some pictures Ema took of our front and backyards:

And this is me all dressed up in my snowsuit:

Playing Under The Table

On Friday Ema caught me playing under the dining room table. I like to crawl under there to find the toys I've hidden and the Cherrios I've dropped :-)But this week I started walking under there, too!

My Cute Liittle Tusik!

My Ema could not resist taking this picture. I was walking around before my bath the other night in my cute little birthday suit when Ema snapped this photo (that was before I peed all over the bathroom floor!):

Gedalya, eat your heart out!!

My Masterpieces

This is a picture of the beautiful works of art that I brought home from gan after purim!

Whereas Veronica used to make most of the stuff I brought home, now I make pretty much everything myself! I can put stickers on paper and color with a crayon (before I stick it in my mouth and eat it!)

Everyone is really proud of me and I feel so accomplished!

Gedalya and Me

Thanks to Gedalya's Ema for posting this great picture:

 

What a fun first purim!

Wow! What an exciting purim! There is so much to tell!!

Well, first of all, I didn't really get to go to shul to hear megilla because it was past my bedtime. So Ema and Abba split up and went to different readings so they could be home with me.

But today was alot of fun. First, Ema tried to get me to wear her dred wig and rasta hat:

Then I spent the rest of my morning playing with my friend Naava while Abba was bar-b-que-ing chicken for our seudah (festive purim meal).

Then we had a big wild and crazy seudah with more than 50 of our nearest and dearest including my Aunt Judy who came to visit all the way from Chicago (pics to come soon). When I woke up from my nap this is what our livingroom looked like:

(and this is just most of our seudah guests...the rest didn't fit in the picture!).

Then ema got me into my "costume". I dressed up as an "arse" which is slang for a punk israeli teenager. Ema layered me in my "grungiest" clothing and made me a mohawk with my flowing locks:

Auntie Kimmy and Uncle Yoni had fun feeding me and taking care of me while Ema and Abba were busy. Yoni loved my look so much that he made is hair look just like mine:

I also got to meet up with my fellow blogger baby
Gedalya who came with his Ema and Abba for Seudah. It was so fun to look, touch and pull at each other and we can't wait to see them again!

Gedalya and I were born just a few days apart and have our first birthday coming soon! Yay!

All in all, a great but exhausting purim!

Watch me take a few steps!

Here is a video of me cruising with my truck. It's great video especially since (at abt 2:46) you will see me take 2 steps all on my own (and yes, that's my Ema screaming in the background)!!!



Do I make Ema and Abba proud or what?

DVDs

This is a video of me cruising around and throwing all of our DVDs on th floor. (It's a long video - don't feel like you have to watch the whole thing, but at around 3:15 you can see me standing on my own!!)



Stay tuned for walking videos coming soon!!

A play date with Eliana

Today my friend Eliana came over to play after gan. She just turned 2 (we went to her birthday party last week!). She's older than me but Ema and Abba say it's better that way!

First we had a snack while we watched "Classical Baby.

Then I pushed her around (although she'd probably say she pulled me around).

And then we played Old MacDonald had a farm (e-i-e-i-o).

Let's play again sometime soon!

Is it Purim yet??

Yesterday I came home from gan dressed up as an Indian!

How nice of Veronica to color-coordinate my costume with my outfit!